An honest non biased news agency.

drdeadlift

Is there an honest source of information for all news worldwide.A news station with no government agenda?

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Fremen

No. News corporations are either government-funded, or out to make a profit. If the former, it's pretty clear they're not free of bias. If the latter, they have to tell people what they want to hear, so that people will watch, so that they can sell advertisement space.

Besides, truth is subjective.

Besides, yore ma is subjective.

Snakeblood

drdeadlift wrote: »

Is there an honest source of information for all news worldwide.A news station with no government agenda?

There's a man down the pub who tells me all the news. Like Bruce Lee, right? His body was so pure an aspirin killed him. Straight up.

orourkeda

Russia today and Euronews are not too bad

Wertz

Reuters maybe...or maybe they're just not biased in areas where I'd care.
Used to think the BBC were fair and unbiased but that mask has slipped somehwta in recent years...they do tend toward objectivity but inevitably contain some nationalistic bias (which is understandable I suppose)...

Napper Hawkins

orourkeda wrote: »

Russia today and Euronews are not too bad

I'd second that.

Immaculate Pasta

The London Independent prides itself of being free from political agenda.

Whether you choose to believe it or not is another thing. It's primarily a left wing newspaper.

orourkeda

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

The Independent prides itself of being free from political agenda.

Whether you choose to believe it or not is another thing. It's primarily a left wing newspaper.

The London Independent?

The Irish Independent couldn't make a claim like that.

catbear

If you want to get a job done usually you'd seek out a few quotes and choose the one that seems to you the most reasonable. Reasonable doesn't have to the cheapest and likewise with news reporting you have to apply your own reasoning when accepting news as truthful.

Extraordinary events like natural disasters tend to be reported without much bias but in all other human matters the listener must be wary.

A lot of what is presented as news in Irish media isn't really news, try to remember what was the big story last monday.

Immaculate Pasta

orourkeda wrote: »

The London Independent?

The Irish Independent couldn't make a claim like that.

The London Independent yes. Sorry I wasn't clearer.

rossie1977

sky sports news

ejmaztec

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

The London Independent yes. Sorry I wasn't clearer.

The fact that some Russian oligarch owns it makes me think that's it not un-biased.

markesmith

The English Independent (the Irish one's a misnomer), BBC and Al-Jazeera. That's a good mix right there.

TwoShedsJackson

There isn't one. News agencies these days seem to feel the need to generate the news as well as report on it.

Super-Rush

The local shop/post office.

Thats where i get all my news from.

RichieC

No. but if you watch them all bar Fox news you'll get the truth between them.

Also a Noam Chomsky research tip, read the business press, they are always more honest.

"Probably less fear of their readership getting out of hand"

My name is URL

I just depend on AH for all my news. It's biased for all sides equally

KerranJast

Reuters and Associated Press are considered the most neutral "X has happened in Y" sources. Unsurprisingly ask most people what they want from a news source and what they want is opinion/analysis that they agree with which is why Fox is so successful.

Itsdacraic

Your local taxi driver

FinnLizzy

orourkeda wrote: »

Russia today and Euronews are not too bad

Russia today pretty much worships Vlad Putin! They're like the Anti-Fox News, but that's not a good thing.
Euronews and France 24 are very good at reporting the less reported. Such as civil war in countries that don't have oil.

CrazyRabbit

There are none. Everyone has an agenda/point of view and will try push it. It's human nature.

Crazy Horse 6

Russia today is fairly balanced.

Drumpot

I used to think that Channel 4 was where you went for objective news . Cant remember why and havent watched it in ages so dont know if I would still feel the same . .

That said, there is no real way of making the news objective . . As stated there are too many vested interests, whoever owns the station.

The only way I can think of off the top of my head is that you would have a newspaper that prints the facts of a story (ie - non debatable facts) and then have differant viewpoints on the interpretation of these facts (or something on those lines).

I know its not very practical, but there are plenty of big stories that have facts that can be interpreted differantly -

• The bailout of the banks
• The cuts that are needed - where should they come from ?
• Party politics or political culture
• Debt "forgiveness" etc

If there was ever a newspaper or medium being setup with objective news stories with its goal, I would love to be a part of it . . I hate the way that people have to be branded Right or left wing or branded anything . . I believe that there is always vested interests and motives driving the news, but that it can be improved with some ingenuity.

orourkeda

FinnLizzy wrote: »

Russia today pretty much worships Vlad Putin! They're like the Anti-Fox News, but that's not a good thing.
Euronews and France 24 are very good at reporting the less reported. Such as civil war in countries that don't have oil.

RT certainly provides a different perspective if nothing else. Not sure about the putin worshipping though.

Alter-Ego

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fyp

Hayte

Propublica.org and CSPAN.org are decent. Independent and non profit eliminates a certain level of monied interest but as with all news you should consume it from as many sources as possible and then compare/contrast the content and the agenda of the source.

indymedia.ie

BigAl81

I find AlJazeera pretty good, some excellent documentaries.
http://english.aljazeera.net/

But as someone said above, take a few sources (BBC/Boards etc) and make up your own mind!

Go Team!

The King of Moo

I like to have a look at both the Daily Mail and the Guardian's reports on particular stories, and assume the truth lies in the middle of their accounts.

biko

RussiaToday and AlJazeera seems good.

Peep O'Day

I find An Phoblacht to be the most unbiased source of information in this country...

jacksprat

Ron Burgundy

4leto

National station have to be balanced and unbiased by law.

So RTE, BBC

CrazyRabbit

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indymedia.ie

Independently biased is still biased. Some of the 'journalists' there are shameful.

InTheTrees

The Connaught Tribune

FTW...

:cool:

Son Of A Vidic

biko wrote: »

RussiaToday and AlJazeera seems good.

Agree, I have seen quite a few excellent reports/documentaries from Al-Jazeera in the last couple of weeks. It's refreshing not watching the usually pro-western media bias/ignorance that's out there.

InTheTrees

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

the usually pro-western media bias/ignorance that's out there.

Do i detect a subtle dig at the Connaught Tribune?

:mad:

sgb

On the radio format I prefer BBC World Service

AnamGlas

I'd say Russia Today and AlJazeera, maybe Euronews, it's better to have a wider scope of all the stories covered.

snubbleste

Russia Today is a 100% government controlled, state-run Russian media outlet and promotes the Russian government's viewpoint.
So it is seriously biased.

I lean towards Aljazeera and Channel4 news.

LaFlammeRouge

I can't believe people think Russia Today is balanced. It's incredibly biased.

I watch Sky/RTE News/AlJazeera/BBC and read whatever google news throws up. Don't know about Euronews, its very dull I don't even bother with it.

dxhound2005

IRNA

http://irna.ir/?LANG=EN&PART=_HOME&TYPE=HP

ShadowHearth

I allways watch only Russian news now.

It was quite amazing to see difference between western news agencies and Russian ones when georgian conflict broke out.

How YouTube was sensored and any video which was actuolly showing proper real footage was taken down and replaced with more bull****... When the girl was taken of air, when she said that Georgian troops were attacking and Russian soldiers were helping them...

Sorry, but western news agencies have more propaganda now then soviet Russia had back then...

craggles

Guardian is a bit left leaning but not really biased much, best bet is to use multiple news sources and formulate your own opinion from there.

Except anything Murdoch. Or the daily mail.

4leto

Al Jazeera is actually a good news channel, it just reports the other side of the usual conflicts.

But it shows images that no news would show in the west, like the actual things that happen in war, like torn apart bodies, dead children, it can be quite shocking, but now all we get is the cleaned up english version on SKY.

Temptamperu

If you want the truth in news you must make it yourself these days.

Naomi00

Channel 4?

kieran26

News-Beat on 2fm
Its where i get my news

wingsof daun

Don't watch Al-Jazeera for World news. This Qatari based outlet has gone from giving completely unbiased reports in the Iraq war to biased/false reports in the Libyan war. If you can link yourself to Syrian tv then you may get the truth, even then maybe not. All news channels are propaganda lying machines if they are reporting on Libya. The Green square celebration from Tripoli a while back was taken from a movie set in Qatar, of course someone who lives in the western World would of had no idea. The Libyan Free Press, Mathaba (Independent news) and the Daily Libyan Post give reports from the other side that you will not get in any western media outlet.
Strange times when it is difficult to believe a news report.

HavingCrack

Why are people so quick to believe Russian propaganda as opposed to the western version? Propaganda is the same the world over. Russia Today is easily one of the most biased and least objective news stations I've ever seen.